Flying Arts Event Calendar Queensland Regional Art Awards
march
12mar(mar 12)11:00 am16(mar 16)12:00 pmRosella Namok Artist Talks - CairnsArtist Talk
Time
12 (Tuesday) 11:00 am - 16 (Saturday) 12:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Cairns Court House Gallery
38 Abbott St
Event Details
11am – 12pm Tuesday the 12th of March 2024 11am – 12pm Thursday the 14th of March 2024 11am – 12pm Saturday the 16th of March 2024 Join Rosella Namok at the Cairns
Event Details
11am – 12pm Tuesday the 12th of March 2024
11am – 12pm Thursday the 14th of March 2024
11am – 12pm Saturday the 16th of March 2024
Join Rosella Namok at the Cairns Court House Gallery for a free artist talk where she will discuss the inspirations for her practice, share stories about her work and speak about the process of translating 2D paintings into 3D sculptures. Please bring your questions to discuss with Rosella as there will be a Q&A at the end of the talk.
About Rosella Namok:
Rosella Namok first appeared on the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s as a prominent member of the renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. Growing up she experienced traditional practices – such as attending ceremonies, camping, fishing, gathering berries and shellfish – within and around Lockhart River, Claudie River, Quintell Beach, Chilli Beach and the Iron Range (Kutini-Payamu) National Park.
With an extensive history exhibiting nationally and Internationally, Rosella has been living and working in Cairns as well as more recently completing major commissions in Brisbane studios. Her paintings continue to reflect both traditional stories and contemporary themes across cultural and social concerns with candid observations about changing lifestyles and the environment. Through a technique developed by watching her grandmother drawing in the sand, Rosella often creates patterned, linear arrangements by pulling her fingers through the layers of paint.
Rosella Namok has been collected by all major State and National Galleries including The High Court of Australia in Canberra.
About Rosella’s Practice: Much of Rosella’s work commemorates her traditional culture and country of Lockhart River whilst contemplating its change, the dismantling of customs and urban development. Although many of her works celebrate her traditional lifestyle and the natural environment of Lockhart River (Stinging Rain, Mangroves and Mud Muscle series) other themes, such as Moieties and New Villages demonstrate the way the old lores are being eroded and the community lifestyle has changed.
What to Bring:
Please bring questions to discuss with Rosella. There will be time for a Q&A at the end of the artist talk.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.
april
06apr12:00 pm1:00 pmNaomi Hobson Artist Talk - CairnsArtist Talk
Time
(Saturday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm(GMT+10:00) View in my time
Location
Cairns Court House Gallery
38 Abbott St
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Saturday the 6th of April 2024 Join the 2023 QRAA Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Winner, Naomi Hobson, for a free artist talk at Cairns Court House Gallery. About Naomi
Event Details
12pm – 1pm Saturday the 6th of April 2024
Join the 2023 QRAA Mervyn Moriarty Landscape Award Winner, Naomi Hobson, for a free artist talk at Cairns Court House Gallery.
About Naomi Hobson:
Naomi Hobson is an Artist practising in painting, photography and ceramics. She resides in Coen on the banks of the riverbeds her grandparents were born. Her residence is an old tin shed that was once her village church. Her colourful abstract compositions act as a link between individuality and a shared identity, her photography grapples with indigenous identity and social issues confronting indigenous peoples while her ceramics are a modern expression of her ancient culture. Her continual inspiration is the vast traditional lands of her ancestors surrounding the town of Coen in Queensland and her culture. More recently, Naomi is further inspired by her travels throughout South-east Asia.
Coen is a small township of 300 people at the bottom of the Mcilwraith Ranges (part of the Great Dividing Range) surrounded by the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, rainforest and open wooded country, with many river systems that snake down to the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef. The local clans include Kaantju, Umpila, Lamalama, Ayapathu, Wik Mungkan and Olkola. This landscape has provided inspiration for Naomi’s paintings.
“I produce art in my own personal space where I feel comfortable which is mostly at home on my back veranda.”
The landscape of Coen is also imbued with a marked political history. Since European settlement Aboriginal people have maintained a connection to their country through working on pastoral properties. Hobson’s grandfather was employed as a stockman for a European family, while other local indigenous people worked as farmhands (cooking, cleaning, gardening, baby-sitters) for no financial reward. Further, Hobson’s family have been active in indigenous land rights and reform movements in the effort to return traditional lands and on social and economic reforms to her Cape York community of Coen.
Through her art, Hobson continues her family tradition of political and social engagement and having such variety and scope of work provides Hobson with a balance in her life.
“My aboriginality is what grounds me. Through art I get to freely express all of this. I can share my creative freedoms in a contemporary way. I find photography particularly enables me to raise issues and promote awareness of our everyday life experiences.”
“My art practise reflects my individuality … I want my work to tell my stories in an innovative way, I want to introduce new work, to maintain a point of difference, I am wary to re-define and not recycle.”
While Hobson is quick to point out she has been exploring her art practise since her teenage years, in 2007 Hobson commenced her journey as an artist. Naomi Hobson June 2017.
What to Bring:
Please bring questions to discuss with Naomi. There will be time for a Q&A at the end of the artist talk.
To discuss specific access needs, please contact program@flyingarts.org.au.